SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS Archives

January 2010

SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV
Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
Re: changing login/default shell
From:
Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:35:22 +0000
Content-Type:
TEXT/PLAIN
Parts/Attachments:
TEXT/PLAIN (16 lines) 
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, suvayu ali wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to change my login shell on a SL 4.8 machine I don't have root
> access to (atcanpc, its only accessible from lxplus). I have tried
> `chsh -s `which bash`'. But that returns me the following error: chsh:
> Your shell is not in /etc/shells, shell change denied. However when I
> do `chsh -l' I see /bin/bash in it.

I think you need to chase this up with the admins of that system.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
[log in to unmask]	http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

ATOM RSS1 RSS2